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iTunes Lyrics Widget – TunesTEXT

Posted on August 16th, 2009 by tomacintosh in Articles, Software, tags: , , ,

Over the years I’ve always used a Dashboard Widget to add song lyrics to my iTunes Library. At the beginning we had Sing that iTune, a very popular and nice little widget. Sadly it hasn’t seen an update since 2008 and has stopped working altogether. In light of this I found a fairly decent replacement in Harmonic. This offered similar features, but is now giving a message stating due to licensing restrictions, it can no longer supply lyrics. After all these issues I set about finding an alternative to Sing that iTune and Harmonic, and ended up finding a little gem going by the name of TunesTEXT. Made by Cyan Works, this widget not only finds and adds lyrics to iTunes, it does it VERY quickly indeed.

TunesTEXT

The great thing about TunesTEXT is that it also searches and adds lyrics to iTunes automatically, without having to launch Dashboard with every change of song. Not only that but it also has a built in iTunes controller and lyrics Editor, so you can easily make adjustments or choose from multiple sources. Overall this is a great little Widget, that I would highly recommend.

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10 Responses to “iTunes Lyrics Widget – TunesTEXT”
  1. Khürt Williams says:
    16/08/2009 at 11:45 pm

    I’ve been using GimmeSomeTune.

    http://www.eternalstorms.at/gimmesometune

  2. @NickyColman says:
    04/10/2009 at 9:36 pm

    Finally! An alternative to the now broken ‘Sing That Tune’. Ace find! Thanks!

  3. Dale says:
    11/01/2010 at 10:47 pm

    Glad I ended up here, love the widget! Thanks.

  4. Steve says:
    02/02/2010 at 8:12 pm

    I’ve been looking for something to replace Harmonic, which has stopped working correctly. This is perfect. The editor makes it even better as on the odd occasion that the lyrics have been wrong, it is a pain going into iTunes to change them.
    Thanks for the hint!

  5. Brit says:
    19/02/2010 at 10:10 pm

    Why does it only show the beginning of the song, then (…)? how do i get it to show ALL the lyrics to the song??

  6. Tim says:
    06/03/2010 at 4:29 am

    Talk about serendipity. Here I am listening to Zero 7 wanting to read the lyrics and I find this app being demoed with lyrics from none other than Zero 7. Download I must!

  7. tomacintosh says:
    07/03/2010 at 2:59 pm

    Nice taste in music you have there Tim :)

    Brit, I’ve never had that problem with my songs? Have you figured out the problem yet?

  8. Bruno Cortese says:
    21/03/2010 at 12:37 pm

    At last! Pretty cool.

  9. Ricardo says:
    23/03/2010 at 5:12 pm

    Thank you so much !!

    I’ve been searching for sthg like this for years !

    Thanks again

  10. heavygoth says:
    29/03/2010 at 12:37 am

    It’s a very cool widget. i think even better than harmonic. Thanks a lot

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